Honors

David K. Schwirian has received the Martindale Hubbell 2019 Client Championship Award, which is given to attorneys who excel at service as affirmed by their clients. In 2017, Martindale-Hubbell introduced a yearly client review rating award. Attorneys qualify as a Client Champion based on reviews they received during the previous two years.

Arden J. Curry, II has become a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, one of the premier legal associations in North America. Founded in 1950, the College is composed of approximately 5,800 members, the best of the trial bar, from the United States and Canada. Fellowship in the College is extended by invitation only and only after careful investigation, to those experienced trial lawyers of diverse backgrounds, who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality. Lawyers must have a minimum of fifteen years trial experience before they can be considered for Fellowship.

Arden J. Curry, II was selected by Super Lawyers. This is a culmination of a selection process in which no more than 5% of the attorneys in West Virginia are selected. Super Lawyers “is an annual listing of outstanding lawyers who have obtained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The objective is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for attorneys and consumers searching for legal counsel."

Pauley Curry, PLLC is nominated as one of West Virginia's TOP 10 LAW FIRMS from the American Institute of Legal Counsel. This nomination is based on Pauley Curry, PLLC's personal attorney client satisfaction record and a review of the firm as a whole. American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys is an impartial third-party attorney rating organization comprised of 6 divisions consisting of Criminal, DUI/DWI, Personal Injury, Bankruptcy, Elder, and Family Law. The American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys compiles an exclusive list of the “10 Best” Attorneys for each State.

Pauley Curry, PLLC is ranked “First Tier” in the inaugural publication of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” in the areas of Alternative Dispute Resolution and General Commercial Litigation for the Charleston, West Virginia metropolitan area. “U.S. News is the world’s leading publisher of institutional rankings based on both objective data and peer evaluations.” As Stephen Naifeh, President of Best Lawyers, stated, “By combining hard data with peer reviews and client assessments, we believe that we are providing users with the most thorough, accurate, and helpful ranking of law firms ever developed.”

Pauley Curry, PLLC has been accepted to the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers™. Only those selected law practices that have earned the AV® Preeminent™ Law Directory rating and have been elected by their colleagues as preeminent in their field are included in the guide. This places Pauley Curry in the country’s 5% of law firms who qualify.

Arden J. Curry, Arden J. Curry, II, and David K. Schwirian, have been awarded the AV® Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell® Lawyer Ratings. Martindale-Hubbell is the largest nationally recognized attorney organization in the country. For the past 100 years, Martindale-Hubbell has rated all of the attorneys in the United States. This is a result of “an extensive, confidential review conducted among the legal profession.” The highest ranking any attorney can achieve is the AV rating. The AV rating is “a reflection of having achieved the highest levels of professional skill and integrity.” One’s level of legal ability is considered to be “very high to preeminent.” The AV rating “signifies that your legal abilities are the very highest standard and that your professional ethics are unquestioned."

Arden J. Curry, II, David K. Schwirian, and Susan Curry Brasselle are members of the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Advocates Forum. The Million Dollar and Multi-Million Advocates Forum was established in 1993 and is “one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the United States.” “Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.” The quality of the membership is “very impressive and includes many of the top trial lawyers in the country.” “The common fact is that they have each demonstrated, in an objective and tangible way, their ability to accomplish superior results in complex cases.”

Arden J. Curry, II, David K. Schwirian, and Susan Curry Brasselle have been accepted to the Top 100 Trial Lawyers. The American Trial Lawyers Association is a national organization composed of the top 100 trial lawyers from each state. “Membership is obtained through special invitation and is extended only to those attorneys who exemplify superior qualifications of leadership, reputation, influence, stature, and profile as civil plaintiff or criminal defense trial attorneys.”

Arden J. Curry, II was named Best Lawyers’ 2013 Charleston, WV Arbitration ‘Lawyer of the Year’. Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community was honored as the ‘Lawyer of the Year’.

Arden J. Curry, II, David K. Schwirian, and Susan Curry Brasselle have been accepted to the Elite Lawyers of America. This organization was formed in order to recognize the outstanding achievements of the select group of lawyers who have obtained a verdict or settlement of $2,000,000 or more in a civil case. Those lawyers accepted to this elite organization represent a very small percentage of attorneys who have been able to accomplish the very difficult task of acquiring a multi-million dollar award for the client.

Arden J. Curry, II has been selected as a "Top 10 Litigation Lawyer in the State of West Virginia" by the American Society of Legal Advocates. The Society selects less than 2% of lawyers nationally.

Arden J. Curry, II has been awarded a "Top Ten Rating" by The National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys (NAOPIA). NAOPIA is an organization devoted to recognizing the top Personal Injury attorneys in the nation. With over a million attorneys in the United States, choosing the best lawyer is difficult. However, through a stringent selection process, the NAOPIA awards the best Personal Injury attorneys in each state with the most prestigious honor of being named "TOP 10". The very few attorneys (less than 1%) that are good enough to make the list have demonstrated an extraordinary amount of knowledge, skill, experience, expertise and success in their practice of Personal Injury.

Arden J. Curry, II was listed as one of the ten best personal injury attorneys for client satisfaction in West Virginia by the American Institute of Personal Injury Attorneys.

Arden J. Curry, II has been inducted as a Charter Member of Trial Masters. Trial Masters is one of the most objective and exclusive accreditations a trial lawyer in the United States can receive. Membership is strictly limited to attorneys who have tried to verdict 35 or more trials in their career.

Fewer than ½ to 1 % of U.S. lawyers are members. Trial Masters membership acknowledges a rare advocate that consistently is willing to take their clients’ cases to the courthouse.